Funding Competition: Business-led innovation in response to global disruption competition
Company Sector: Manufacturing
Project Duration: 6 Months
Funding Secured: £200k
Enabling social distancing in manufacturing operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
DeGould is an award-winning innovative engineering company, based in Exeter, focused on providing intelligent inspection solutions to the automotive industry. DeGould’s Auto-dent project is an AI-powered mobile dent detection system that can be applied to early-stage inspections in the production system. Before this project, there are no known automated, mobile dent-inspection solutions in the automotive market. This solution will enable car manufacturers to safely return to operations within social distancing guidelines and improve quality and productivity to reduce costs in the automotive sector in the UK and beyond.
“We wanted to react quickly and positively with our technology to assist our OEM customers in ‘getting back to work’. Granted Consultancy were excellent at reacting quickly to qualify our needs and criteria fit, as well as deduce the correct information and pull the application together in a tight time frame. This award will allow us to accelerate our R&D and testing and fast track a viable product to market. This will have an instant and tangible benefit to our customers.” – Ed Jones, CEO of DeGould Limited.
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